Fastening device for men&#39;s garters.



No. 893,935. PATENTED JULY '21, 1908.

. R. A. MOORE.

' FASTENING DEVICE FOR MEN'S GARTERS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSWELL A. MOORE, OF BERLIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLE00.,

' OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR MENS GARTERS.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Serial No. 417,389.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RoswELL A. MOORE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Berlin, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fastening Devices for MensGarters; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1 a view in front elevation of a fastening device for mensgarters constructed in accordance with my invention, the device beingshown as webbed. Fig. 2 a detached plan view of the fan-sha edcorner-plate. Fig. 3 a similar view of t e hook-member. Fig. 4 a view insection on the line ab of Fig. 1, showing the corner-plate and hookmember in engagement.

My invention relates to an improvement in fastening devices for mensgarters, the object being to produce at a low cost for manufacture, adevice constructed with particular reference to simplicity ofconstruction and facility of operation.

With these ends in view my invention consists in a fastening device formens garters having certain details of construction and combinations ofparts as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a fan-shapedcorner-plate 2 made from a single piece of sheet-metal and having a airof webbing slots 3 above its center an a corresponding pair of webbingslots 4 below its center, the slots of each pair of slots beingdivergent and therefore symmetrical with the shape of the plate. Midwaybetween these twopairs of slots I form an opening 5 in the shape of akey-hole and arranged with its longer axis in line with a radius of theplate 2 and with its circular larger or post-end adjacent to thenarrower end of the plate and its narrower parallelsided outer orbit-end adjacent to the outer edge of the plate. As shown, the metalabout the outer or bit-end of the opening 5 is struck up to form a boss6, whereby the said end of the o ening is lifted into a plane above theplane 0' the plate to form a recess in the inner face thereof. For usein connection with such a corner-plate I employ a hookmember 7 having aneye 8 and provided at its opposite end not with a hook proper, but witha shank 9 having a bend 10 which terminates in a small coupling-disk 11which on account of the bend 10, is located in a plane below the body ofthe hook-member 7. The disk 11 is a trifle smaller in diameter than theinner or post-end of the opening 5, while the shank 9 1s a triflenarrower than the outer or bit-end of the said opening.

In using the fastener, the disk 11. is passed through the circular innerend of the opening after which the corner-plate and hook-member aredrawn apart, whereby the edges of the coupling disk 11 are caused topass under the plate 2 at points adjacent to the bit-end of the opening5. The coupling-disk 1 1 is thus entered into the recess formed by theboss 6 as shownin Fig. 4. The corner-plate and the hook-member are thuscoupled together and maintained in this relation by the strain of thatportion 12 of the webbing which passes around the leg.

The depending end 13 of webbing terminates, as usual, in a clasp whichmay be of any approved construction.

In a fastening device for mens garters, the combination with afan-shaped corner-plate consisting of a single piece of sheet-metalformed with a key-hole shaped opening arranged with its post-end inwardand its bitend outward, the metal around the bit-end of the openingbeing lifted into a plane above the plane of the plate to form a recessin the inner face thereo of a hook member having a shank terminating ina circular couplingdisk se arated from the shank by a bend which p acesthe coupling-diskin a plane below the plane of the said hook-member andthe said coupling-disk and shank of the hookmember being respectivelysmaller in diameter and narrower than the post and bitends of thekey-shaped opening in the cornerplate, whereby the said disk enters thesaid recess when the hook-member is engaged with the corner-plate.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

ROSWELL A. MOORE.

Witnesses:

' MALTBY SMITH,

H. C. CooLEY.

